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brusnes
10-25-2008, 12:40 PM
This morning I went to play my NES for the first time in a long while, and while unwrapping my controller the wire was quite a pain to untangle, and has a tendency to spring back into little tangles instead of staying straight. Is there any way to fix this or make the wire a little more malleable again?
pwpcody
10-25-2008, 01:24 PM
let the cord lay in the sun for a few hours, it will loosen up then you can store it however you'd like.
Dreadstar
10-25-2008, 03:24 PM
I had an N64 controller with a similar problem. I ended up carefully hanging it in a doorway for a couple days. I guess the weight of the controller put just enough tension on the cord to straighten it out.
Cornelius
10-25-2008, 03:31 PM
Yeah, if you can warm it up a little it'll soften the rubber. A heater vent should do the trick.
This thread's title reminds me of the Ig Nobel award (http://improbable.com/ig/winners/) for Physics this year:
PHYSICS PRIZE. Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
REFERENCE: "Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String," Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 42, October 16, 2007, pp. 16432-7.
Ponyone
10-25-2008, 07:27 PM
Yeah, if you can warm it up a little it'll soften the rubber. A heater vent should do the trick.
This thread's title reminds me of the Ig Nobel award (http://improbable.com/ig/winners/) for Physics this year:
PHYSICS PRIZE. Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
REFERENCE: "Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String," Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 42, October 16, 2007, pp. 16432-7.
I always hate that and it's so true. I always wondered what all my plugs and wires and cords would do at night that they would tangle up themselves and eachother. Damn bastards.
I always hate that and it's so true. I always wondered what all my plugs and wires and cords would do at night that they would tangle up themselves and eachother. Damn bastards.
It's just loves embrace, don't hate :P